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The best place to find things: the public library.
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The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.
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Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.
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For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.
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The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.
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It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.
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The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
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Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.
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In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.
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Goebbels [...] was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me.
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If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.
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Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.
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The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.
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The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.
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Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.
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The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.
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The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.
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Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Edward Bernays
Born:
November 22, 1891
Died:
March 9, 1995
(aged 103)
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